Device for curling hair



(No Model.)

W. I. BRIGI-IAM- DEVICE FOR GURLING HAIR. No. 396,534.

In VET [U v. erlfii'y/ma/ waz I Patented Jan. 22, 1889.

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\VALTER I. BRIGHAM, OF SOUTH FRAMINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

DEVICE FOR CURLING HAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 396,534, dated January22, 1889.

Application filed December 20, 1887. Serial No. 258,526. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALTER I. BRIGHAM, of South Framingham, county of\liddlesex, State of l\lassachusetts,have invented an Improvement inDevices for Curling Hair, of which the following description, inconnection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, likeletters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object to construct an implement or devicefor curling hair.

The invention consists in the combination, with a rotatable tube orcylinder upon which a lock of hair to be curled is wound, of an iron ormandrel adapted to be heated and thereafter inserted in the said tube orcylinder while the lock of hair is wound taut thereon; also, in thecombination, with the tube or cylinder upon which the lock of hair to becurled is wound, of a holding down or retaining device to hold the hairfirmly upon the tube while the latter is being heated by an insertedmandrel or iron, to thereby prevent the hair slipping; also, in thecombination, with the rotatable tube or cylinder upon which the lock ofhair to be curled is wound, of a detaching or removing device to detachor remove the curl from the said tube or cylinder.

Figure 1 shows in side elevation a hair-curling device embodying thisinvention; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section of the tube or cylinder uponwhich the lock of hair is to be wound; Fig. 3, a left-hand end view ofthe tube or cylinder shown in Fig. 2; and Fig. 4, a lefthand sideelevation of the detaching device, shown in Fig. 1, for removing ordetaching the curl from the tube.

The tube or cylinder a, upon which the lock of hair is to be wound, isprovided upon one side with a holding-down or retaining device, hereinshown as a flat-sprin g, 11, attached to the tube near one end, as at b.The opposite end of the tube av is beveled, as at a, and the outer orfree end of the spring I) overlies the said beveled portion, as shown inFig. 2, so that the lock of hair to be curled may be easily placedbeneath the said spring I). The end of the tube a, near the point ofattachment of the spring 5, has fixed to it a button or disk, 0, ofleather or other suitable material, provided with aroughened edge, bywhich the said tube may be rotated.

A detaching or removing device is provided, consisting of a ring, (I, ofsuitable diameter to fit the exterior of the tube, said ring being fixedto a suitable handle, d. The ring cl is slipped upon the tube and bearsagainst the disk 0, and said ring is cut away for a short distance, asat 61 or otherwise constructed, to provide a suitable passage for thespring b when the ring is slipped on or withdrawn from the tube.

In using the device the end of the lock of hair to be curled is placedbeneath the spring I), as shown in Fig. 1, the implement being held atsuch time by the hand-piece d. The tube is then rotated by the diskc,winding the lock of hair around the tube and over the spring. in Fig.1,) is then. inserted into the tube a and held until the hair has beenproperly heated, and the iron is then removed and the lock of hairthereafter removed from the tube by withdrawing the ring (1 from thetube by the hand-piece d.

The rod or iron 6 is provided with a step, e, to gage the distance itshould be inserted into the tube a to prevent the outer end of the saidheated rod from protruding from the opposite end of the tube a andburning the operator, and said rod 6 is rigidly attached to ahand-piece, 6 by which it is manipulated. The disk 0 is provided at somepart of its periphery with a notch, 0 to indicate to the operator theposition of the spring I) with relation to the cut-away portion of thering (1, so that the ring may be withdrawn from the tube and not bind orin any way injure the lock of hair.

It will be seen that the removing or detaching device (Z serves as aguide or hearing in which the tube a is rotated.

I do not desire to limit myself to the precise construction of lookingor retaining device for the lock of hair, nor to the preciseconstruction of removing device, the same may obviously be changedwithout departing from the spirit and scope of this invention.

I claim- 1. In a device for curlinghair, the rod or A heated iron orrod, 8, (shown only iron 6, and the handle d, having an attachedbearing, combined with the rotatable cylindrical tube a, having the disk0, the tube rotatin g in the said bearing, substantiallyas described.

2. The rod or iron e, combined with the tube a, beveled at a, and itscontiguous spring look ing or retaining device rigidly attached to thetube at its inner end and ext-ended longitudinally thereon, the free endof said locking device overlying said beveled portion, substantially asand for the purpose described.

3. The cylindrical rod 6, having the limiting-stop 6, combined with therotatable tube or cylinder a, a detachable bearing, d, therefor, and thedisk 0, against which said stop abuts, substantially as described.

4. The rod e, combined with the tube or tially as described.

6. The rod e and tube a and its locking device, as the spring I),combined with the removing device, as the ring (Z, cut away at LP, andits handle 61, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of 30 two subscribing witnesses.

\VALTER I. BRIGHAM.

WVitnesses:

BERNIOE J. NoYEs, J. C. SEARS.

